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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Lining our dress... New Girl´s Sew Along

So yeah, we're nearing the end of our New Girl dress! Today we will lining the skirt and waistband and wear our dress New Girl on the streets of our city! Wearing our dress ..... uploaded to the heels of a dream fulfilled, floating on this dream ...... and we will go to make up with our best smile! That is the perfect makeup, cheaper and effective known so far! So let's finish our dress ... the first thing we need is to test us the dress and determine the height of the hem, I've cut a little above my knee, because I wanted to get a similar effect to the original dress, but adapted to my age, you decide how far it will get your skirt and sew the hem of your dress, to your taste. I made mine with invisible stitching by hand, it seems to me more appropriate to this dress, but your dress is your choice.

We started by cutting a strip of fabric lining, it´s having high a little less than the height of our skirt, overlock at the two short ends, and spends stitching on the waist of the lining to prepare it for gathering later, now do the following .. .put this skirt lining in position that there is in the first photo, we will determine how far we have to sew the center back seam and how hollow must leave for the zipper, you can see in the second picture I have marked with a cross pin to where I sew from the hem to the pin, so now sew this seam and center back lining ironing open.

Now place the lining as shown in the first photo, the dress upside down, and lining upside down also put it sideways, now take only one layer of the piece we have left open and pinned the seam allowance of the lining with the seam of the dress,

You can see the pins that hold only along the line where the zipper is sewn, place the zippers preser foot of your sewing machine, or in my case, I have my machine needle to the position of one side (like sew the zipper did before). Sew this piece, from the waist of the skirt to the end of the zipper.

If you give the lining of the skirt to the other side, you come across something like the first picture, so now take the other side of the lining that I have on hand, in the first picture and place it well, with pins to another margin side zipper, sewing with your sewing machine from the waist of the skirt, until the end of this hole zipper, sewing go slowly removing pins as you go along the way.

Once completed it, you will have it which appears in the first picture, a skirt lining sewn at the two ends of the zipper to her dress, now you have to go around the lining and tuck the skirt into the liner .

Then we have something like the first picture ... we have our covered skirt, now we need to cover the waistband for extra stability, and we recover the waistbands lining we had cut the beginning, when we cut our dress, sew side seams and ironed open, start nailing with a pin the front center of the waistband lining to the front center of the seam of the skirt, as you can see in the second picture. Be especially careful in the position of this band lining, it's easy to mess, and if we put somewhere where it no should be, then it is going to mistake us all, so pay close attention to this step.

Now we sticking pins around the waist of our dress, sew it to ... Note that to reach the ends of the zipper should not sew all the way, leave a piece unstitched these two extremes, now sew the position shown in the second picture, as close as possible the seam that joins the bodice of the dress with the skirt, start sewing about seven centimeters from one end of the zipper and sew all around to get to another seven centimeters around the other end ..

Almost there! Now you just have to back up this band lining, and sticking pins in the upper seam of the waistband ... I've helped with my mannequin (Miss Mercromina), I put the upside down dress on the mannequin and it has been easier to do so, if you haven´t mannequin, you can do it fitting your dress at your table board, as we did for the zipper. Nailing with pins along the top edge of the band lining and keep nailing to reach the ends of the center back, and go nailing carefully folding the seam allowance inward to finish placing the entire lining band, you can open the photos to see better closely in the footsteps. Now playing a blind stitch sewing by hand all the way to the pins to secure the lining band to the waist band of the dress, do these steps calmly and neatness so there are no wrinkles, everything must fit perfectly ....

Once you have finished, you can ironing the full dress and have a stitch of view to a centimeter of the seams in the waistband of your dress, this will make a nice effect and will definitely help unite the waistband lining to the dress ... In the back, do not take this stitch to end, because you run the risk of sewing is on the rack and then have trouble going up and down your zipper, stitching begins and ends a few centimeters away from the zipper.Missing only ironing carefully your dress and sew the buttons on the front ....

And of course, enjoy our mission accomplished!! We have in our hands the first dress of this TV show and we can wear it totally proud of having sewn it ourselves .... I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do this first project, many more are coming and if you are curious ... the picture that heads this post is also within these projects coming ... we still have many things to do and I'll go slowly giving guidelines to get all these garments, How's yours one?